Physics

The Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano has been involved in intense research in the field of applied Physics for more than forty years now. The focus is particularly on the Physics of Matter, which develops, above all, with regard to two main branches: laser and photonics, the physics of solids and surfaces and thin films. At present, the first branch covers various different fields, such as laser sources for generating ultra-short impulses (femto and atto-seconds, high intensity matter radiation interaction and ultra-short material spectroscopy), photonic systems for inter-disciplinary application (biomedicine, agricultural food, cultural heritage), solid state lasers and integrated optics devices (use in telecommunications, environmental monitoring etc.). With regard the second branch, main activities concern the synthesis and characterisation of nanostructured artificial materials (typically epitaxial layers of nano and subnano-metric thickness) for use in microelectronics, optoelectronics and spintronics, the study of the electronic and magnetic properties of solids, also by means of innovative techniques using synchotrone radiation, the revelation of nano or subnano-metric dimension cavities in solids.